Two very interesting discoveries, one of them fully described 

 in our present volume, were brought to our notice in the autumn 

 of last year through the instrumentality of the two great railways 

 of our neighbourhood. In one case there was found in a cutting 

 of the Great Northern Railway, at Shipley, in this county, an 

 earthen vessel filled with Roman coins of various dates. The 

 other case was on the Midland Railway, in cutting a new line at 

 Saxby, in Lincolnshire. Here were brought to light a great 

 variety of objects : pottery, consisting of a few perfect urns, and 

 an immense accumulation of fragments, glass beads, coins, an 

 ear ring, two fibulae of bronze, unfortunately not perfect, and a 

 large quantity of human remains. The Rev. Dr. Cox has carefully 

 examined these remains, and has come to the conclusion that they 

 undoubtedly pertain to an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. It had been 

 intended to have described and illustrated this remarkable and 

 extensive find in this Journal ; but as the site of the discovery 

 was in Leicestershire, Dr. Cox thinks it better that his paper 

 should appear in the " Journal of the Leicestershire Archaeological 

 Society." 



During the past year your Council has been asked to advise in 

 a few instances connected with proposed church restoration, but 

 save in deprecating, as we always must, anything like unnecessary 

 pulling down of existing buildings, we are glad to be able to 

 say that we have not found ourselves called upon to seriously 

 disapprove of any work to which our attention has been drawn. 

 May we not hope that a true spirit of preservation, as well as of 

 more and more careful restoration, is making its influence felt? 

 Our attention was lately called to the discovery on the walls of 

 Worthington Church, on the borders of our county, of some 

 lettering under the plaster ; one of our members went to inspect, 

 and took some drawings of the lettering, which was probably of 

 the Elizabethan period, but not of sufficient value to be worth an 

 attempt to retain — at the same time we heartily thank the mem- 

 ber who brought the matter to our notice, and would again urge 

 upon all our friends the importance of promptly reporting any 

 such discovery to the Council. The members will recollect 



